August 2013

The Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) associations of Northern New York are asking farmers to report any findings of leek moth, a pest that prefers onions, garlic, chives, shallots, leeks, and oth
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LAFAYETTE — Beak &amp; Skiff Apple Orchards, Inc., a destination for apple-picking Central New Yorkers for more than a century, is opening its 2013 season with a new look and a newly branded product.
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SYRACUSE — Onondaga Commons, LLC, the owner of the blue-colored, “L”-shaped building along West Onondaga St., has plans to expand the facility and has acquired two adjacent properties as part of the e
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UTICA — A few of the Upstate opponents of the Utica Comets will get to know minor-league hockey’s newest team early in the upcoming season. The Utica Comets, the American Hockey League (AHL) minor-
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SYRACUSE — Three years of splitting employees between two nearby locations will end soon when accounting firm Testone, Marshall &amp; Discenza, LLP (TMD) finishes an expansion project at its 432 N. Fr
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SYRACUSE — House hunting has come a long way from circling ads in the Sunday paper, spending a day looking at houses, finding the right house, and then applying for a mortgage and waiting anxiously fo
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Some business ideas seem to have a life of their own, particularly since they sound so reasonable. They’re so much a part of the culture and so obvious that they go unchallenged, requiring neither pro
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Back in 1995, the Cato Institute published a study entitled, “The Work vs. Welfare Trade-Off,” which analyzed welfare benefits in all 50 states, and concluded they were a disincentive to work. A year
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There is a new water-level plan proposed for Lake Ontario that will threaten shoreline property, recreational activity, and damage public infrastructure. Plan 2014 has been proposed by the Internation
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